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Help With a 'new' radio?

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Steve_Green

Just last night we unearthed a small Grundig portable from some basement effluvium. After trying and failing to find a wall current adaptor to match what the radio needed -- 3 volts -- we bought batteries.

Instant DX! It has twelve bands, and is about the size of a block of cheese.

Two problems.
1) We can't turn it off
2) It starts beeping like an alarm, which it also is (a clock)

There are no directions, of course. The model # seems to be Grundig RX 703. It seems to cook a bit on AM (and at the low end, which is usually the problem spot here).

Anyone with any experience with this beast?

Like, you know, how to turn it on and off?
 
Tincap, I swore I'd read it right, reading glasses and binoculars and all.

It's an RX 709. You are correct.

I'll be more careful next time with the typing and double checking.

Grundig RX 709. It features a 'humane wake system'. The numbers, letters and switches on this not only are real small, but a few of them have worn off.

Still beeping away!
 
StveGreenPA said:
Tincap, I swore I'd read it right, reading glasses and binoculars and all.

It's an RX 709. You are correct.

I'll be more careful next time with the typing and double checking.

Grundig RX 709. It features a 'humane wake system'. The numbers, letters and switches on this not only are real small, but a few of them have worn off.

Still beeping away!
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Steve, is it this one? It's an RK 709 from the early 1990s.
 
That's the one. Thanks, folks. Looks I needed some help with this.

A few times.

A buddy of mine who was even born in Germany is looking into it. While not a DXer per se, he's a ham and the CE of two stations plus had been chief at three others.

Kinda ridiculous for a grizzled, white-haired, SSB-scarred DX veteran like me to go into lore first and foremost as not being able to find the on-off switch of a pretty decent radio he's twice failed to identify correctly, or turn off the beeps on it. Hereon in now, this is a matter of reputational pride.
 
StveGreenPA said:
Tincap, I swore I'd read it right, reading glasses and binoculars and all.

It's an RX 709. You are correct.

I'll be more careful next time with the typing and double checking.
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No worries, Stve! Just makin' sure we're all on the same page, so we can give you a hand. ;D

~BG
 
StveGreenPA said:
A buddy of mine who was even born in Germany is looking into it. While not a DXer per se, he's a ham and the CE of two stations plus had been chief at three others.
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Grundig is a German company so your buddy may even be able to have better luck tracking down some info on this model or something similar in Germany.
 
It appears that Siemens also marketed a model RK-709, which looks identical. Check this out: http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/siemens_weltempfaenger_rk_709rk70.html

The picture shows the power switch is on the right end of the radio at the bottom. It is a long silver button, push the top to turn it on, and push the bottom to turn it off. My guess is that the beep you hear is an independent alarm connected to the internal clock. You may have to reset the alarm time to silence it.
 
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